Section 60: Memorandum of understanding
89.Section 60 gives the Council and the Commission the duty to make arrangements on co-operation and exchange of information between them and on consistent treatment of matters which affect both of them, and also the duty to prepare a document setting out these arrangements (a Memorandum of Understanding; MoU). The Council and the Commission have the duty to send this MoU to the Secretary of State who has the duty to lay it before each House.